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St. Landry democrat., 1887-09-10
A CHINESE PROFESSIONALLY

Queer Advertisement from a Mother for
Her Runaway Son.
Queer advertisements get into the Chinese
newspapers Here is one from mother,
whose son has run away from home:
Take care that you are not struck by light
ming. Your mother weeps bitterly for you
as she pens these lines in order that they may
be read by her son. When you ran away
from home on the thirtieth of the eighth
moon the people of the shop came and asked
us what had become of you. 1t was thus we
learned your flight. Inearly died of fright and
since then my food and sleep have benefited
me but little. am still crying and moaning.
! have received your letter, which has come
from beyond the horizon, but it does not
tell me where can find you. | am now at
almost the last extremity, and our family
has had to put up with cruel ms Its from
strangers. If you do not return can stand
all this no longer and shall assuredly put an
end to my existence in which case you would
be in danger of being struck down by light
ming. If you return, no matter in what way,
all will be arranged. | have even invented
plan by which your father will know moth
ing about your escapade. My life or death is
question of only a few more days. en-
treat all well-disposed persons to spread
abroad the advertisement so that it may be
read by all whom it may concern. They will
thus earn profusion of hidden merit Writ
ten bv a woman of Son-cho Take care that
you are not struck down by lightning p
China Herald
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of personal property. Very often in
those same sleeves they store away souv-
enirs of feasts to which they are invited,
such being one of the customs of the
Japanese empire.
Hairpins rule in Japan as absolutely
as does the potentate who exercises sway
over Russia. One of the glores of the
Japanese women is their hair. The men
shave their heads all to an Indian
like seal plock, but the ladies cultivate
their hair with great pride. They twist
their locks into shapes that would startle
the inventive hair-dressers of the out
side world, and fill the whole with enor-
nous hairpins made of carved woods, tor
toise-shell and ivory. Some of these pins
are filled with colored liquids, which find
exit at the ends in brilliant bubbles &C
cording to the movements of the wear
ers, producing at short distance a very
surprising and pretty spectacle.
The men tattoo their bodies and the
women know all the secrets of the toilet.
The japanese girl takes feminine delight
in personal adornment, but no sooner has
she become a wife than her attractive
ness vanishes. Almost Immediately after
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her housekeeping, kind to her servants
"a little profuse, perhaps, but then liv-
ing is cheap in the East. The keys of
everything are in the keeping of the
mistress Of the house, and she is usually
exact in her accounts. All the vast
stock of conserves and sweetmeats,
syrups for the preparation of sherbets,
and pickles in endless variety, are either
prepared by her own fingers or under
her eyes. Nor does she disdain to be a
confectioner and maker of pastry. If
she desires to pay particular
present some dish made by her
own hands AS evening approaches
the long and elaborate Persian dinner
classes by the sexes apart-she prepares
to entertain her husband; she will play
to him upon the lutte or harmonica; she
will sing to him, or read him to sleep
with poetry; or she will play with him
at backgammon or chess, or recite to him
long stories in the style of The Arabian
Nights" When he is sick she nurses
him, and it is her pride to see that his
wardrobe is well supplied and his ser
wants we'll clad She will intrigue for
nlin. pledu LOT MIN, lie LOT ulll, anu Has
been known to die for him. She will
even carry her complaisance so far as to
find another wife for him.
Wien husband and wife are stricken in
years the lady is only too glad to accom-
pany her lord and master upon the great
and perilous pilgrimage to Mecca, or to
one of the lesser shrines. Should death
overtake the husband before he is able to
accomplish the pilgrimage, the wife will
accompany his body upon a journey that
may last year, to see that it is inferred
with becoming reverence in the ground
adjoining the burial place of some Mo-
hammedan saint, distance and expense
being quite unconsidered. The Persian
mother is loved by her children; her
word is law, and in Persia an undutiful
child is unknown. The mother it is who
selects wives for her sons and husbands
for her daughters Women in the East
are, as a rule, virtuous and religious
and do their duty well.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-09-10

guest, is the head wife of the Mikado,
Muse Hito. SIZE is still young, Of me-
dunn height, graceful in form and car
rage and, according to Japanese reports,
quite beautiful. Her complexion is yell
darker than the Portuguese bellies. She
does not affect Cloud" colors like some
of her wealthy subjects, neither is she
given over to plainness. When she
welcomed General Grant to Japan she
wore her hair "combcd plainly and
braided with a gold arrow"
Her august lord, the Mikad0, is good
looking man, still young in years. The
imperial family is a very ancient one, and
traces it's lineage in direct line back to
$50 years before the Christian era The
MikadO was once considered holy being
His face was TOO sublime to be seen by
any Of his subjects. When he died he
received divine hOnOrs. Within twenty
wears il was an infraction of the statutes
to speak his sacred name. This is per
mittcd now, but money cannot purchase
his PHOTOGRAPH, which is still wOrshiped
in some of the temples.
The intercourse between the United
States and Japan is Of the most cordial
nature The opening Of the japanese
ports to our vessels some wears ago was
followed bv the adjustment of some old
systems which We're grinding the people
down and impoverishing the empire.
Six hundred Young men Of Japan have
been educated in our universities, and
fill, many Of them, at least important
positions under the home government.
+. G.. HARBAUGH,
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expected to do so without shoes.
Otherwise, he would ruin the
mats that cover the floors. The mats
are six feet in length by three in breadth,
and are covered with layer of straw
dextrously plated. The edges are bound
with dark cloth. Sliding screens of
wooden frame work, covered with paper
and often filled in with designs by native
artists, form the doors. The ceiling is
formed of thin boards The wealthy
cover their door-frames with rich silk
stutfs, and the artists brush adds to their
attractiyeness. No japanese, no matter
what his rank or wealth, has much furni-
ture. The people cannot understand why
the Western nations fill their houses with
articles of supertluous furniture. The
.Japs are content with a few shelves
and trays. Tables. chairs, sideboards and
even beds they do not need, and refuse to
have them around.
The kingdom of the Mikado is essen
TALLY kingdom of babies. The toddler
is seen everywhere, and in every con-
dition of life. In the rural districts of
Japan, where the lot of the women is to
toll in the fields, the baby is kept at
home by the father. A girl is amused
with porcelain dolls almost to the very
day when she changes her maiden pleas
ures for the cares and drudgery of
japanese wifehood. Children are car
ried on the mothers back until they are
able to take care of themselves. The
progeny of the wealthy are aired on the
street in a singular-looking baby-wagon,
pushed by the nurse, attended by little
girl whose duty it is to amuse the
charges.
japanese etiquette is rather exacting,
but in official circles it has undergone a
great change of late years. When Mr..
De Long, our minister to Japan for some
years, was required to see the Emperor,
he had great difficulty in obtaining an
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the contrast between the width of the
shoulders and of the waist is so great
as to suggest the shape of top rather
than that of the human form. A cross
section would exhibit about the same
diameter from front to back as from
side to side, whereas the natural
waist is oval The effect therefore
is to give the bust the hard intlexible
appearance of cigar-store statue,
the t1exile, elastic characteristics of
the human conformation having
been quite extinguished. Another OBJ
vious popularity is that the line of the
shoulders is apt to be uneven, one side
dropping while the other is bumped.
Much light is thrown upon these
mysterious phenomena by an article
which we find in The Lazy, an English
periodical devoted to the abtruse sub
iect of women's dress. The writer. who
seems to be an expert on the subject, de-
clares that the trouble is caused by an ap
paratus of compression known as the cor
set. 1t appears that, as generally made,
this apparatus lis nodded only at the
waist, and tor few inches above
and below it; while the upper part
of the figure is pushed upward and left
to it's own fashion, 1t is further averred
that "corsets of nineteen and twentyinch
waists fit slight, uniformed figure per-
fectly, but grown woman, with firm,
well-modeled figure, must perforce screw
herself into the same corset if her waist
measures nineteen or twenty inches, and
the consequence is that shoulder blades
are pushed out of the corset, the shoulders
are raised, the arms forced forward, and
pigeon breast is soon Produced
While this explains the curious con-
formation displayed nowadays by fash
ionable girls, the nature of the obligation
referred to still remains a mystery. Why
must" woman 'perforce screw her
SELF into an apparatus of distortion. The
fortitude displayed is admirable, and there
must be some exceedingly energetic mo-
tive which can thus sustain mode Of
dress so antagonistic to comfort, beauty
and health. What can it be?
St. Landry democrat., 1887-09-10
THE REIGN OF THE PORTIERE.
Physicians Assailing the Pet Furnishing
of the Esthetic Housewife.


of the Esthetic HOUSEWIFE.
A cloud considerably larger than a
mans hand looms up before the house
wife in the matter of the portiere. With
out question it adds effectively to the ar
tistic character of a room, but is it suita-
BILE generally within private house?
This is the mOOt-pOlnt.
No one will insist that the por-
there answers every purpose Of a
door; no one will say that there
is equal seclusion behind it. 1t is
better than a door, perhaps, in that, be-
ing even part way open, there is no in
sidious draught rustling through, while
it is less satisfactory in that, being
closed as completely as is possible, there
is no absolute privacy behind it. Indeed,
a well-known society woman complains,
in regard to her own house, that ''atfairs'
supposed to be positively private have
somehow filtered out through unknown
channels, and she places all the conse
quential damages upon the portiere, in
sisting that, until the art of not hearing
is cultivated both upstairs and down, it
is possible for this fashionable drapery
to do even greater mischief than BESIDE
monas handkerchief.
Meantime it has more formidable
enemy. Physicians are talking of its
susceptibility for holding germs of in
fictitious diseases, and suggesting that
apartments for temporary and formal
use are the only portions of a private
house in which the portiere should be
used. The aesthetic housewife need not
hasten to Danish her handsome draperies
upon the spur Of professional suggestion,
however. for no doubt this viii, be another
"Who shall decide when doctors disa
gree?'
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roval suite naturally reawakens an
interest in that remarkable people and
their island empire. Some years ago
we royally entertained a Japanese en-
hassv, and the visit strengthened the ties
already existing between the Mikado S
Kingdom and our own republic. In fact,
], sent Japan forward in the pathway of
civilization, and did more than anything
Use to break down the barriers which
her daimos 0rnohles had erected between
her and progress.
1t is my intention in the brief scope Of
he present article to take glance at the
Japanese at home, and to speak of GER
lain social customs rather than to at
Tempt an historical review of the empire.
One remarkable thing about the Japan
csc is that their dress is well suited to
their features and complexion. While
there is something about it that reminds
one of the Chinese garb, it is As differ
tnt from it as is the character Of the two
races.
The men dress in robes of different
lengths. These are girt about the waist
by broad sash. The sleeves are large
nd are closed at the ends They are
used for pockets, and there the gentle
men carry the delicate paper handker-
chiefs they use, as well as other articles
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the ceremony her eyebrows are shaven
off, her white teeth are stained black, the
beautiful hairpins disappear and she
passes into the stage of responsiveness
Husbands are not required to submit to
these tests of affection, and, after such
Disagreement on the part of the female,
it is not strange that the marriage VOW
is not always kept in Japan.
Women in the island empire meet with
but little consideration at the hands of
the government. Over the porch of one
of the numerous temples on the island is
an inscription like this: "Neither horses,
cattle nor women admitted here" Such
is the social condition of women in Japan
that the public bathing-houses are used
BY both sexes promiscuously, though not,
of course, by people of high rank
A japanese dinner forms one of the
customs of the country. The floor Of the
dining-roon. is covered with clean mats,
and the guests are required to remove
their shoes at the threshold. A little
St. Landry democrat., 1887-09-10
KAISER WILHELM'S APPETITE.
The Emperor Does Justice to Dinner
Consisting of Six Seven Courses.

SOHSlSIlHS VI DIX oT seven SOuISSS'
A Gastein correspondent sends an account
ofhow the Emperor William eats and drinks
at that favorite resort. The Emperor is very
simple in his habits, and lives more like a
private gentleman of means than an imperial
sovereign. Great care is taken with the En-
peror's dietary. Every morning three com
plete menus are laid before him, and that
which pleases him he marks with a cross.
Three portions ofeach course are cooked, and
then the most delectable is chosen. Now and
then the Emperor issues dinner invit ,tions to
number of dignitaries of the district, and
these gatherings form pleasant diversion in
his Gastein life No guest is more pleased
than the Emperor when the conversation
takes free and mirthful course, and the old
Kaiser laughs heartily when good Joke is
made The board is literally spread, the
dinner consisting of six or seven courses with
wines, champagne and sherry to wash the
viands down with. "The Emperors appe-
tite," we are told, els that of a healthy man
of fifty years. and he does full justice to the
wine" When the Kaiser wishes the guests
to rise he stands up and then all retire to the
reception-room. The guests may not light
their cigars in the house, for the Emperor
dslkes the smell of tobacco.
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LUNCHEON.
Goldfish Scalloped, with Mushrooms.
Raw Tomato Salad.
Terhune Corn Bread.
Dried Rusk and Milk.

DTlc1 MUSK anu Min
Berries.
CoDF1sH ScALLoPED. WITH Mushrooms
Two cupfuls of cold boiled Goldfish Greshl
''picked' rather cOarsely. one cuptul OF good
drawn butter, half a can OF mushrooms,
half cup of fine crumbs, pepper and salt.
Mince the mushrooms and stew between the
LAYERS of the fish in a buttered dish. moist
ening as you go on with the drawn butter,
and seasoning with pepper and salt. Cover
the topmost layer with the drawn butter,
then with crumbs stick bits Of butter III
these and bake, covered half an hour, then
brown. You can make this dish of salt cod,
soaked before it is cooked. In this case, beat
up couple Of eggs in the drawn butter.
RAW TOMATO SALAD.-Peel very cold toma-
toes cut in two crOsswise and serve with
mavonnaise or plain dressing.
1ERHUNE Corn BREAD. - Two cups OF
white corn meal, one cup Of -four, two table
spoonfuls of white sugar. three cups of sour
milk or buttermilk Half 'loppered''
cream makes it particularly go"d) One
rounded teaspOOnful of soda and one Of salt
sitted three times with flour and meal, one
large tablespoonful of lard. Sift flour, meal,
salt and soda into a bowl beat lard and su-
gar together and stir into the milk; pour the
latter into hole in the middle of the flour
and stir all gradually to 4 thick batter; beat
hard with upward strokes, raklng the bot
tom of the bowl with each sweep, for two
tuI ii iAiit S4t%oS'i fbNN4i4-
set in pot Of boiling water and cook stead
lily four hours, keeping the water about it a
a slow boil all the time. Turn out and eat
hot. 1t will be found very nice.
DRIED RUsK AND MILK. (Excellen0.-
Two cups of milk, two eggs, half a cup OF
butter. half of yeast cake. dissolved in
warm water; one quart of -four one even
teaspoonful of salt. Mix the milk. butter,
yeast and a pint of flour into a sponge and
let it rise five or six hours, or until light
beat in the eggs, salt and the rest of the
flour; roll! out the dough into paste more
than half an inch thick; cut into round bis
cults. set rows of them in a baking-pan, rub
the tops lightly with butter and put smother
row on these; let them rise for half an hour
before baking. Remove from the oven and
lei them get nearly cold before dividing the
upper from the lower stratum; pile lightly
in pans, and leave in a cooking oven all
night to dry. They should not be Drowned
at all in drying. Hang them in clean bag
in the kitchen closet or other dry, warm
place. In two days they will be ready for
use. Set bowl at each place; lay rusk
cracked in two or three places in it, a bit Oh
ice on this and pour on enough rich milk to
cover the rrsk we'll. In three minutes. if
we'll dried the desccated biscuits will be soft
and delicious. Pass sugared berries as an
accompaniment.
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CONCER MING THE UMBRELLA.
Some Interesting Facts About This Pro
tector from Bad Weather.

tector from Bad Weather.
A Philadelphia umbrella manufacturer
saws there are about $500, 900 umbrellas and
rarasols sold in this country every year.
America has gone ahead of foreign nations
in manufacturing them, and not more than
ten per cent. are imported. The Sheffield
umbrella, however, still leads the world Do
mestc makers have to figure very closely,
and were they to raise prices ten per cent.
the country would be deluged with foreign
material. 1t is a remarkable circumstance,
says the Philadelphia Press, that only one
person has ever made any money on any
patent on an umbrella. That one man is old
Sammy Fox, OF Sheffield, England, I'M
doubtedly the best-known umbrella maker
in the world. He made the first paragon
frame, and he got a royalty from every one
made for fourteen years. An umbrella goes
through many hands before it is sold. No
one firm makes an entire umbrella. The
ribs and braces are made in one factory, the
sticks in another, and the little catches that
slide along the stick in still another, while
the silk is imported. Fashion has great
deal to do with the business.
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The Divine Sarah.

Sarah Bernhard is said to have shocked
her dear Paris by emphatically declaring:
81 cannot play any more in Paris. You
Parisians are too poor. like butter on my
bread. So | will have to return to America"
Her pet tiger, which she is pleased to call an
Algerian black cat has been fined 10Ofr. for
disturbing neighboring families.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-09-10

audience. He was conducted through the
darkened corridors of the royal castle to
weird music, and found his majesty
guarded by perfect arsenal of swords
and firearms. Five hundred troops es-
corted the American minister on this oc-
casion. Four years later, when De Long
went to present his successor, Mr.. Bing
ham, he had no escort, there were no
swords flashing about the Emperor, and
the minister was cordially received and
entertained. Time and intercourse with
other nations, but more especially with
this country, had wrought this wonder
full change.
The present Empress, and our future
St. Landry democrat., 1887-09-10

Jananese costume, does the hOnOrs OF the
table.
Tea is served clear and piping hot i'll
little cups After the tea follows sakl, a
liquor distilled from rice. The more
substantial portion Of the repast consists
Of fish, vegetable soup and meat. All
the dishes seem to have common favor,
which is hard for a stranger to analyZe.
When General Grant was in Japan he at
tended a dinner W hch lasted six hours,
but most of the time he Old hero enjoyed
a cigar at the window. One OF the
dishes at that memorable dinner was
baked beans and its appearance was
one of the events of the general 5
tour of the world. Guests at ,japa-
nese tables sit on the floor while they
eat. Conversation is always viva
cious After the rcpast dancing girls
are brought in and a lively musical
entertainment concludes the proceed
ings These girls strum an instrument
between banjo and a guitar, and,
while the airs are not without melody,
it would be hard for even an expert
in the "divine art to find much real
music in them The dancing, however,
is graceful, quite peculiar to the country,
and bends to 10 rules Of the ballet. One
who has not seen an exhibition of this
kind after a Japanese feast cannot I'M
derstand how it can be attended with
graceful movements, when we
say that the heavy habits of the
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stantly tends to special
ization. No student in
this field can have failed
to remark the curious
type Of physique now
presented to the view
by fashionable young
women. The distance
from the nape Of the
neck to the girdle pres
ents an appearance OF
upDat,,ral 1aDUth and
St. Landry democrat., 1887-09-10
A SOCIOLOGICAL MYSTERY.
The Curiou. Display of Conformation
Made by Fashions Slaves.

The study of social tendencies is
fascinating philosophical pursuit, and,
although those who cultivate it are apt
to devote themselves chiefly to that
branch Of it which deals with the style
aud manners of the girls, yet it must be
remembered that modern science con-
St. Landry democrat., 1887-09-10
Scene in an Editorial Room.

Contributor-"Hereis a manuscript wish
to submit Editor (waving his hand)-"I III
sorry We are full just now" Contributor
Ghl"ndly)-''N Very well, | will call again
when some Of you are srber.'
The only switch for a woman is a hair
switch.
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HE recent an
nOunCcne II t
t h at hi s
country is to
be visited
soon by the
Empress of
J a pan and
twenty mem
bers of the
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graceful movements, when we
say that the heavy habits of the
performers always cover the
feet and. most of the time, the
hands. Whenever one enters a
dwelling-house in Japan he is
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PERSIAN WOMEN.
THE IDEAL DIFFER NT FROM THE
TURKISH BEAUTY.

Polygamy the Luxury of the Rich-All
Women Attend the Bath, Which is Quite
a Serious Affair-Gray Hair Unknown
A Very Punctilious Race-The Children.
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-09
To the Citizens of wichita and Vicinity.

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Parties wanting stock will do well to take
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They will find it to their int rest to buy di-
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We make speciality of setting and guaran-
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w. c.. Shaw and r. II. Southwell are our
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c. H. FINK & Son, Props,
Lamar, Mo, and Wichita, Kan, nurseries.
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